Crossword-Solution: NERMAL 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

But when he opened his mouth to reply he was afraid of saying something that would shatter this good opinion; so he bowed politely and merely said, "Thank you." "I trust that you will find our association agreeable," said Miss Nermal, smiling and walking toward him.

Those teachers whom Belton met before he entered Miss Nermal's room thought him "very nice." Those whom he met after he left her room thought him rather dull.

Miss Nermal herself pronounced him "just grand." All of the girls looked at Miss Nermal rather inquiringly when she said this, for she was understood to usually pass young men by unnoticed.

Miss Nermal was habitually so indifferent to young men that they had not considered her as a possibility.

The teachers soon noticed that Miss Nermal and Belton invariably walked together, and they managed by means of various excuses to break up the group; and Belton had the unalloyed pleasure of escorting Miss Nermal from the school-house door to her own front yard.